Dowager in a sentence as a noun

At a party, a dowager rebuked him for his inebriation: "Winston , you are disgracefully drunk!

The bad reaction is akin to what you'd expect from a dowager having been goosed by an upstart who crashed her stuffy fund-raiser.-john longawa

The only reason to wear a tie to "symphony and other events" is if you are intent on participating in the insular "society" made up of dowagers.

Take the Han dynasty:After 92 AD, the palace eunuchs increasingly involved themselves in court politics, engaging in violent power struggles between the various consort clans of the empresses and empresses dowager, causing the Han's ultimate downfall.

Dowager definitions

noun

a widow holding property received from her deceased husband